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DISK Seagate and Toshiba both want to acquire TDK's disk read/write head business Toshiba and Seagate are competing to acquire TDK’s disk drive magnetic head operation according to Bloomberg. TDK is the only independent supplier of HDD recording heads and sells to all three drive

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When we shop for almost anything, we expect three things: (1) to understand our options, (2) to see what they cost, and (3) to get what we need quickly. Technology has enabled entire industries to rebuild themselves around making this experience easier for consumers. Then, we get

Mumbai: Foreign investors are scaling back their bearish bets on banking stocks ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) policy decision on Wednesday, raising the prospect of further gains in the Bank Nifty if the central bank delivers an expected rate hike without any negative

If you’re looking for a document editor that doesn’t use artificial intelligence, LibreOffice may be just the software for you. The Document Foundation, the nonprofit software maker behind the open source document editor LibreOffice, said in a blog post this week that while it do

The unexplained death of a lab technician at a Russian research institute handling plague bacteria has raised questions among infectious disease experts, who say the circumstances surrounding the case are unusual and key details remain unanswered. According to local reports, some

There is, I think, a pent-up demand for bringing electrification to camping. Anyone who’s had their sleep disturbed by the sound of someone else’s generator running at night would probably agree. Certainly, any time we cover an electric van, comments are filled with people wonder

Dollar demand from oil companies added to the woes even as likely intervention from the central bank capped the loss, traders said. This is the rupee’s weakest closing level in more than two months. The currency saw its all-time low of 96.96 in May. The rupee opened marginally we

The personal-agent space has become closely competitive in recent weeks, with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dot, and Instinct taking the lead and more competitors being launched each week. But Vinod Khosla is betting on former Google and DeepMind engineer Shivani Poddar’s Wajo for one si

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti has told CNBC that "hard measures" are needed to tackle France's spiraling debt crisis, warning that "small, incremental changes" will not be enough. Speaking to CNBC's "Squawk On The Street" on Tuesday, Ermotti compared the ongoing turmoil in Europe's bond

Dell Technologies has expanded the Dell AI Data Platform with context orchestration layers, GPU-accelerated processing engines, and high-density multitenancy across its unstructured storage infrastructure. The architectural enhancements target the enterprise retrieval path, conne

It's been just over a year since Paramount Skydance set out to buy one of Hollywood's most iconic institutions. After repeated rejections, a subsequent bidding war, a series of regulatory approvals, an antitrust challenge by state attorneys general and a timely settlement, the Da

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

British national arrested in connection with RAF Fairford incident - Published A 22-year-old British national has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with an incident close to RAF Fairford, counter-terror police said. He was arrested in Westm

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GPU applications increasingly consist of multiple independent components running at the same time within a single process: a latency-sensitive operator alongside a throughput-oriented background kernel; a data preprocessing stage alongside model inference; or multiple stages of a

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Iberdrola, the Spanish electric utility and renewable energy developer, surpassed Florida-based NextEra Energy as the world’s largest power provider by market capitalization on Tuesday, reaching above €141 billion. Iberdrola’s growing strength comes from its broader global footpr

Tim’s view As Russia again ramps up its attacks on Ukraine’s electricity grid ahead of the winter heating season, this time Kyiv has a new ally in its corner: El Niño. Last week, 8,000 households around Ukraine temporarily went dark after the Kremlin’s first large-scale grid atta

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider teased long-term plans on Monday when he shared that the company has applied to make “.bsky” an internet domain suffix, like .com or .org. If approved, users will be able to turn their longer social handles into shorter, cleaner domain names. For instan

The AGI Chronicles, by Kevin Roose. With rigorous reporting and more than 150 interviews with those working for the US’ most influential AI companies, technology journalist Roose covers Silicon Valley’s breakneck race to build artificial general intelligence. Roose’s account is “

Amazon announced on Tuesday that Prime Video will be the new home for the Emmy Awards, marking another major Hollywood awards show’s move from broadcast television to streaming. This will also be the first time that the ceremony has had a dedicated home, as the show rotated acros

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 software and services index rose 1.3% on Tuesday to its highest level since November 2025. It also recorded its biggest quarterly gain since the second quarter of 2020 during the July-September period. Strong results from Sa

The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals — following what French president Macron described as “

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Wednesday, October 7, following key order wins, business updates, expansion plans and corporate announcements. Axis Solutions, Blue Dart Express, Glen Industries, Titan, Container Corporation of India and Laur

I’ve had one too many discussions on the cyber risks of open models — where someone assumes that either banning open models happens in a silo (and bad actors will somehow actually be stopped) or that China is a threat and doesn’t care about AI safety — that I feel we’re going to

How to lighten design system upkeep with the Figma agent Figma’s agent can take on repetitive work across your design system, from maintaining your library to automating how designs adhere to it. Here, we share a few ways to put the Figma agent to work. Share How to lighten desig

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Exactly how many support and related issues can AI Agents really, truly resolve today? It’s a good test of just exactly where the latest models and agents are. Now $100M ARR AI CX for ecommerce leader Gorgias (where SaaStr Fund led the seed) has now published a public benchmark t

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

Pinterest on Tuesday showed off a new feature that will leverage AI to take action on your saved inspiration from beauty-related Pins, like hair and nail ideas, and turn them into actionable plans you can take with you to the salon. “Beauty Guides,” which are powered by the compa

Uber is buying a catering company called ezCater, as it continues to grow the types of services available through its Uber Eats division. It’s an all-cash transaction valued at $2.3 billion. Billed as a “leading U.S. platform for catering and workplace meals,” ezCater is a market

3 ways product designers use the Figma agent for craft, speed, and creative expression Here’s how teams at Uber, Granola, and Atlassian support high-quality, fast-moving work with the Figma agent, now generally available. Share 3 ways product designers use the Figma agent for cra

How to lighten design system upkeep with the Figma agent Figma’s agent can take on repetitive work across your design system, from maintaining your library to automating how designs adhere to it. Here, we share a few ways to put the Figma agent to work. Share How to lighten desig

With fall upon us, it’s time to pumpkin spice up your life with the tasty results of the 2026 Developer Survey. Over seven weeks, more than 30,000 people took the survey and answered questions about their work, technologies, learning strategies, and, yes, AI use. We diligently wo